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Upgrade
An ordinary man gets an unwelcome upgrade to superhuman status in Crouch’s latest techno-thriller. Logan Ramsay paid his debt to society for his role in the Great Starvation, a global catastrophe caused by his renegade scientist mother. Now, years later, the world is a mess. He dislikes serving the Gene Protection Agency, but his adored wife and daughter make it worth it. But on a routine raid for the GPA, Logan contracts a virus designed to slowly turn him superhuman. He soon realizes another terrifying catastrophe is looming, one with devastating connections to his past, and that he’s uniquely qualified to intervene before it’s too late—even though the cost is unbearable. An engrossing and cinematic blend of hard science and thrilling action, and a thoughtful and ultimately hopeful exploration of what makes us human—and what we stand to lose if we don’t get our relationship with our vast technological power right. For fans of Crouch’s Recursion and Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.
About the Book
“Mysterious, fascinating, and deeply moving—exploring the very nature of what it means to be human.”—ALEX MICHAELIDES, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens
“You don’t so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin.”—DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
“Walks the fine line between page-turning thriller and smart sci-fi. Another killer read from Blake.”—ANDY WEIR, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary
The mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion
“You are the next step in human evolution.”
At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.
But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways.
The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.
Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost.
Because of his new abilities, Logan’s the one person in the world capable of stopping what’s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he’ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.
And even as he’s fighting, he can’t help wondering: what if humanity’s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?
Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man’s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity—and our boundless potential.
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